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bug#60252: 29.0.60; help-fns--describe-function-or-command-prompt asks f
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#60252: 29.0.60; help-fns--describe-function-or-command-prompt asks for confirmation |
Date: |
Fri, 23 Dec 2022 09:26:41 +0200 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, 60252@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 16:14:04 -0500
>
> >> We may as well revert that part of my patch.
> > I don't think that would be TRT. Emacs behaves like that in other
> > places, so why this one should be different? Such inconsistency can
> > confusing.
>
> It's quite unusual to ask for the `describe-function` of a symbol that's
> not defined as a function and it won't give you very much info.
I'm afraid of use cases where the user didn't know whether a function
is or isn't defined. Human memory isn't perfect. I frequently forget
whether the function is buffer-process or get-buffer-process, for
example.
- bug#60252: 29.0.60; help-fns--describe-function-or-command-prompt asks for confirmation, martin rudalics, 2022/12/22
- bug#60252: 29.0.60; help-fns--describe-function-or-command-prompt asks for confirmation, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/12/22
- bug#60252: 29.0.60; help-fns--describe-function-or-command-prompt asks for confirmation, Stefan Monnier, 2022/12/22
- bug#60252: 29.0.60; help-fns--describe-function-or-command-prompt asks for confirmation, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/12/22
- bug#60252: 29.0.60; help-fns--describe-function-or-command-prompt asks for confirmation, martin rudalics, 2022/12/22
- bug#60252: 29.0.60; help-fns--describe-function-or-command-prompt asks for confirmation, Stefan Monnier, 2022/12/22
- bug#60252: 29.0.60; help-fns--describe-function-or-command-prompt asks for confirmation, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/12/22
- bug#60252: 29.0.60; help-fns--describe-function-or-command-prompt asks for confirmation, Stefan Monnier, 2022/12/22
- bug#60252: 29.0.60; help-fns--describe-function-or-command-prompt asks for confirmation,
Eli Zaretskii <=
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- bug#60252: 29.0.60; help-fns--describe-function-or-command-prompt asks for confirmation, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/12/23
- bug#60252: 29.0.60; help-fns--describe-function-or-command-prompt asks for confirmation, Drew Adams, 2022/12/23
- bug#60252: 29.0.60; help-fns--describe-function-or-command-prompt asks for confirmation, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/12/23
- bug#60252: 29.0.60; help-fns--describe-function-or-command-prompt asks for confirmation, Drew Adams, 2022/12/23
- bug#60252: 29.0.60; help-fns--describe-function-or-command-prompt asks for confirmation, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/12/24